nbsp not working in CSS content tag [duplicate]

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Adding HTML entities using CSS content

#sitenavmenu-content-menu li:before
{
    content:"|&nbsp;&nbsp;";
}

I want to add a | and two spaces before each list item. However, for some reason it prints the word nbsp and not the space. Any ideas?

Solution 1:

This could be the answer you are looking for :

content: "|\00a0\00a0";